Hassan, March 24, 2020
You know a new study has revealed that 75% of ERP projects fail;
Goosebumps!! Right? Yes, the time, money and efforts spent in
implementing an ERP all goes in vain.
Nike’s
famous $400 million lost in a failed ERP software package that
followed by a lawsuit; and
HP’s
$160 million lost in revenue due to a glitch in an ERP software;
it has compromised the reputation of the Fortune 500 companies.
Highly expensive licenses of the ERP software; in addition to the
license, hiring the services of another implementing partner is
cumbersome. The companies spend time in exploring, negotiating and
finalizing a software and then they have to do the same for
procuring an implementing partner. They also need to replace some
of their workforce with certified resources to run the software in
day to day business.
On the other hand SaaS-based software are easy to be explored, the
free trials are available and
companies such as OrderMS
(
Free Trial
) offer customized demos. Companies don’t need to hire services of
a third party implementing partners but the turn key solutions
model makes it easier for clients to implement the system.
Here are seven key reasons why SaaS software are better than
on-premise ERP solution.
Cloud computing has transformed the way companies would do
businesses in past. It has helped them reduce the cost of
establishing big servers and DRs to service model of acquiring low
cost but high speed servers. Cloud computing’s service model is
gaining fast popularity; 21 percent software that companies use
today is delivered as service; such as:
Gmail account
, or Facebook for advertising, or
Githhub
, or
slack
they all use cloud servers to provide you with the services.
Now, imagine establishing your own servers for the tools your
company use for day to day business. It would not only have sucked
a lot of your liquidity but; it would still have carried a lot of
risk in maintaining to provide uninterrupted service to end users.
The Software as Service (SaaS) gives you freedom to pay as much as
you use. Most of the SaaS-based software are available on monthly
and annual subscription basis. Unlike to its counterpart ERP
solutions that require you to pay upfront for the license you
acquire; no matter when and how you use it.
Imagine you are running an advertisement on
Facebook
Adds for your furniture business in Huston area. Facebook as a
service provider will let you select your demographic and will
only charge you for the number of target audience and the number
of days you advertise your product.
SaaS based software vendors allow its users to pay using their
credit card or
PayPal
accounts; makes it easier for it’s’ subscribers to pay and go.
Have you ever used
Mail Chimp
to send marketing emails to your thousands of contacts?
Just imagine a similar solution for your on premise ERP that would
allow you to email broadcast to your contacts. The time and
efforts it would pull to implement will be extraordinary and would
put you in a state of comma. And each time you need to do the
same; you would require an expert to do it for you.
Whereas, using Mail Chimp all you need to do is to subscribe with
the service using your email ID, Pay using your credit card,
import your contacts and broadcast your message. You don’t need to
be an expert in IT or software, all you need to do is to have a
Common Sense.
Every SaaS based software is designed to be extremely user
friendly with the intuitive UI & UX. Since SaaS based software are
used by hundreds and thousands of companies worldwide from
developed countries to the developing countries. Countries with
state-of-the art facilities with the limited facilities; they are
designed in a way that it is used by anyone and anywhere.
The most important ingredient of SaaS-based software is its user
experience. The UX designed for OrdeMS was done by keeping two
principle in mind:
The company wants its users to say Wow as many times as they land
on their software. The software navigation would provide users
with the WoW factor.
Secondly, software is designed and built in a principle that it
would provide users with a self-understating of how to navigate
and bring the best value of the software. The software is
extremely easy to understand so that someone with the knowledge
its business can easily use the OrdeMS.
As it name shows Software as a Service; SaaS based companies only
exist because they provide their clients with round the clock
customer services. These companies put in place a robust customer
services department with the facilities to connect with the end
users on a real-time basis. Most of the SaaS companies include the
customer services charges in their subscription fees and some
charge separately.
However, in ERP software you need to hire services of a third
party company that would not only take a bunch of days and
sometimes in months to resolve a minor issue. And the money it
cost you is sometimes unrealistic.
OrderMs provides its clients with tireless services to keep its
clients happy and satisfied.
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Back in days when SaaS was not an option; companies used to buy
licenses and install the software on servers. The Installation of
a particular software needed to buy other programs of a particular
specification of the machine with other Add-On were necessary. You
would need to have an expert to install the software on a server
machine and on other client machines as well.
Resulting in a hectic time and efforts with high probability of
issues and bugs.
SaaS software eliminated this old age practices. Most of the
SaaS-based software are available over the internet and would only
require a gadget and internet connectivity. The SaaS software are
mainly run using the internet browser with unique username and
password. You don’t need to have a specific machine and
specifications to run your software.
SaaS software companies also provide their clients with Mobile
Application such as Android and iOS that would bring a superior
experience to the users. Providing them notifications and alerts
on the go would not be possible with the on-premise ERP solutions.
One of the most important aspect of any software is to evaluate the possibilities and probabilities of exit. Companies switch form one software to another for a bunch of reasons, such as:
Top ERP software providers
even fail to provide the best solution in any of such issues.
There is likelihood that SaaS- based software providers would not
meet the requirement of its customer in any of such happening. In
that case, companies would like to exit form one software and
switching to another. In such a case SaaS based software providers
would charge nominal amount to its clients based on the number of
users in most cases and would keep the instance up and running.
Exporting data in any form from a SaaS software is much easier.
However, in contrast ERP solution would charge you heavy and will
take a lot of time to provide you the data that you require. You
would need deploy experts that would help you with exporting the
data and would cost you more than even you anticipate.
Fortune 500 companies are rapidly switching to SaaS-base model for
their business processes. It is just a matter of time when most of
the companies would be throwing away their gigantic ERPs to most
intuitive SaaS based software.